Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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ANNETTA L. WOOD DEPARTMENT HEAD Scenes from Love Rides the Rails. ' ONE OF TWO MAJOR PRODUCTIONS THIS YEAR-LOVE RIDES THE RAILS, OR WILL THE MAIL TRAIN RUN TONIGHT? It More from Love Rides the Rails.

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Left to Right: Lowry, Lester, Gremillion, Caldwell, Butler, Smith, Ewing, Lambert, Ricks, Hilliard, Burt, Griffin, Bramlett, Scheri, Harris, Schlernitiauer, Shaw, Sylvest, Ledet, Landry. SHEILA CALDWELL BRAMLETT Vice-President JUANITA BURT ADDIE BUTLER MARY ELLEN CALDWELL MIRIAM EWING SIDNEY GREMILLION Treasurer MARY KATHRYN GRIFFIN MEMBERS ERLINE HARRIS President WINIFRED HILLIARD JUSTINE LAMBERT ANNA BELLE LANDRY BETTY WILLIS LEDET AVA LOUISE LESTER WANDA LOWRY MISS CATHERINE WINTERS, Faculty Sponsor MARIE LOUISE MARIN ADA LEE RICKS ADAIR SCHERZ MARY LEDA SCHLERNITZAUER KATHERINE SHAW Secretary ADELAIDE SMITH GWENDOLYN SYLVEST Top: Ledet, Lester, Lowry, Marin, Ricks. Bottom: Schen, Schlernitiauer, Shaw, Smith, Sylvest. f25]

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With four championships and two second-place awards in tour- naments attended prior to the annual Louisiana speech meet held on the campus in March, the -forensic squad set an all-time record in early-season wins during 1942. Sorting off with top honors in the junior women ' s division of debate, first in women ' s radio and two second places in debate at the East Central State College tournament at Ada, Oklahoma, the college speakers continued their winning streak by capturing a championship in radio speaking for women at the Baylor Uni- versity meet in Waco, Texas, and in senior women ' s debate at the Mid-South tournament at Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Virginia Leete and Norma Ruth Holcombe won the first-place trophy in junior women ' s debating and Mary Ellen Caldwell was first in women ' s radio speaking at the Oklahoma meet. Carolyn Cook and Mary Ellen Caldwell were awarded second place in senior women ' s debating and Virginia Cook and John White won second in the mixed division at the Oklahoma tournament. Miss Caldwell added another championship in radio to give the local college speakers the only first place at the Baylor meet, while Adelaide Smith and Billie Cheves added to the laurels won by the college this year when they defeated teams from seven states to take the championship in senior women ' s debate at the Mid-South tournament. S. F. Thomas, Jr., and Aubrey Kendrick made good records at the M ill sa ps College tournament at Jackson, Mississippi, and at the Oklahoma and Texas meets. Teaming together for the Arkansas tournament, Thomas and John White advanced to the semi-final round before being eliminated. Adding three first and three second places to their long line of wins at the Louisiana Forensic and the Southern Association of Teachers of Speech Tournaments, the Demon debaters closed the 1941-42 season with a total of seven championships and six second places. DEBATE White outlines the case . . . Debate champions of 1942 — Virginia Leete, Norma Ruth Holcombe, Adelaide Smith, and Billie Cheves . . . 1942 lettermen — Sam Kendrick, Adelaide Smith, Billie Cheves, Carolyn Cook, and G. F. Thomas, Jr. . . . Coach Ropp instructs Mary Ellen Caldwell in radio technique.